Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Tracy studied SEOMoz and several other online sources of SEO tips. She’s now the leading marketplace for women’s used wedding dresses and accessories and ranks 2nd in Google for the term “Used Wedding Dress.” One of the many things you become expert at when you launch your own company and have no money is SEO.

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socalTECH

APRIL 25, 2017

Playa Vista-based Science 37 , which is developing technology and a model that allows pharmaceuticals companies and others to conduct clinical trials in patients' homes--rather than dedicated, off-site facilities--has raised $29M in a Series C funding round.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

I was excited to read it because Robert Cialdini had been a speaker at Google when my wife worked there and she told me that many members of the senior management team at Google had been raving about his work. John gave me the book after I spoke at his entrepreneurship class at UCSB. You should, too. You should, too. (no,

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Xconomy

AUGUST 12, 2016

In other Google-related news, Recode reported that Bill Maris, the founder and president of Google Ventures (now called GV), has left the firm and will be replaced by David Krane. . —The U.S. Alex Lash examined the company’s role, via its biotech subsidiary Verily Life Sciences, in the massive project. —David H.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 12, 2010

We led off with a discussion about Slide being acquired by Google, which was breaking news in the time slot where we filmed this episode. Specifically we talked about Slide having gotten a $550 million valuation before being sold to Google for $182 million. A recent study said seed stage valuations have been quite static recently.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Entrepreneurs seeking funding should emulate Addie''s efficient and focused pursuit of perfection. When securing funding, entrepreneurs must balance the desire for perfection with the urgent need to ensure the process is efficient. Google x Facebook x Amazon) + (Universal Reviews). One-liners. AngelList Differentiation.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

We found that those communities exit on many different platforms, like Slack, GroupMe, Facebook Groups, Google, and elsewhere. MIT and McKinsey did some studies on this, that showed about $400 billion a year is lost in the tech industry, due to lack of diversity and inclusion. How are you funded? Those communities already exist.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2019

In fact, a Wharton Business School study in this decade of the “Top 30 Innovations of the Last 30 Years,” concluded that only eight were first conceived by entrepreneurs, and twenty-two were conceived by employees. He created a simple Gmail for internal use, and later it became one of the biggest Google offerings.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2016

This morning’s show took on the topic of “teams” and highlighted research that Julia Rozovsky and Google has conducted called Project Aristotle and profiled in Charles Duhigg’s book Smarter, Faster, Better. ” It seems strange to me that we don’t take team dynamics more seriously at startups.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Not only is Sieva attending Wharton this Fall, he and his partners, Hansae Catlett (Stanford), Hiro Tien (Stanford) and Josh Hoffman-Senn (Harvard), will launch The MBA Fund later this year. Their venture fund will focus on startups founded by Wharton, Stanford and Harvard students and alumni. valuation greater than $500 million).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

Most top tier VCs return about 3x invested capital and outlier funds (the best of a vintage) might return 6-8x. It’s true this was much bigger in the dot com era but I’ve studied the data and know that over the past decade these numbers are right. You invest across many funds just as VCs invest across many companies.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 9, 2012

Upstarts create a profile and await its approval, and as they promote their offer, they also review and approve backers who fund them in increments of $1,000 and at times mentorship. He adds,“I was thinking about these issues while still at Google. The upstart’s then build their business, test it viability and grow a team.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

This led to massive funding rounds at Bird, Lime and others. There was seasonality, theft, tough unit economics and slowing funding rounds. This is only true when: 1) there is funding available to finance short-term losses and 2) when there is a lucrative positive unit-economics business when you become the winner.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

I just cover the companies that were funded that week. Also, some of the deals I write about I have actually seen as part of their fund raising process. Studying for the SAT, LSAT, GMAT, TOEFL, MCAT and other standardized tests in the US is a massive market that has been dominated for years by Kaplan and Princeton Review.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2010

We built that to 50 people with funding from a VC in Ireland closely connected with the European company. Google has its own home energy monitoring project, PowerMeter - is this competitive or different? Google is doing a web presentment tool, taking data from utility companies. how do you hope to stand out in the market?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 8, 2008

Pasadena-based Cramster (www.cramster.com) recently announced $3M in a large angel round for the firm's online study communities. Cramster is looking to create online study groups, to help high school and college students study math, science, and other topics. What we're trying to emulate is the face-to-face study group.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

In our industry we call that a TAM (total addressable market) and I’m sure you can even Google methods for calculating a TAM. This is based on “price elasticity” and you can google that to understand it better. If you want to succeed you need to study the competitors. Study your history. Competition.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Then I check and manage our Google Adwords campaign and check our analytics/stats. Some days I respond to questions asked by folks like yourself, the press, or an entity doing a case study, i.e. Citrix, RIM, USC. Santa Barbara: the home of the clicks (and the calls) , Do your kids Google poo? Sometimes I make a blog entry.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 12, 2015

After studying at UC Santa Barbara''s entrepreneurial program , he returned to Spain, excited to start a venture and make a positive impact on his homeland. Even Google News decided to close in Spain due, to a new law designed to protect legacy businesses. A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Ann Hiatt, Chief-of-Staff to the Chairman at Google. In addition to currently being the Chief-of-Staff at Google and the Business Executive Partner of Eric Schmidt, she has also been the executive assistant to Marissa Meyer of Yahoo! Take a look at who you can see in Austin this year below!

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

We talked with Noah about how the company grew out of a business plan competition at the University of Southern California, his recent funding from the Maverick Angels, as well as how the firm hopes to stand out among a crowded list of comparison shopping sites. Did you have any prior background in this, and what were you two studying?

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Eric Greenspan

JUNE 25, 2015

Three years ago, I got the news that my investor was unable to fund and my 11 year old company would miss it’s first payroll. It was a Sunday, around noon. When the news arrived, I moved fast and did all I could to start the process of acceptance. What would happen next was I supposed expected, but impossible to really understand.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

About how Microsoft viewed Google Apps. Perhaps the best they can do is to help fund their successors. earned handsomely from Google’s success. I am reminded about how dismissive traditionally television media is about YouTube – even to this day. Sony, the iPod.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

He’d been working at a well-funded startup for about a year and had come to terms with the fact that the startup was really a pretty dumb idea. First off the two prezis and then the case study material (i used ERPLY as inspiration). 8211; are mostly a loss leaders for Google. I Be specific. Lots to learn from him. I know I do.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

In fact, research by Fundable shows that less than one percent of all startups are funded by venture capital and angel investors. In reality, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, and many others achieved success before they had business plans. Most successful entrepreneurs are young and crazy.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

BCG, Bain, LEK – they’re all great), a few years at a start-up or a few years somewhere like Microsoft, Google, Amazon or Apple. And if it’s not I’m generally not that interested in funding it. If you had a non-business undergrad and want to study for a master’s in business – go for it!

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

For a high-volume seed fund that adds many portfolio companies every year (such as our friends at 500 Startups who invest in over 100 distinct companies annually), the cost of a bad affirmative decision (a false positive) is quite low, since it accounts for a relatively small portion of their total fund. Unicornless.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

Argument two says, “big companies can’t innovate anymore so Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc. Remember it was only 2008 where Microsoft and even Google were laying off employees. That would mean that the increased number of new business startups will lead to a “funding gap&# of deals that can’t get financed.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2011

One, is it makes it easy for businesses to embed that video on their own website, on blogs, and Facebook, and they can also link to that video on their Google Places page. To the extent that a business is not familiar with embedding, we also help them with that process, with claiming their Google Places page, and link that video.

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socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2016

He was a co-founder of Applied Semantics, which started the AdSense technology, which they sold to Google in 2003. million in funding, but ended up burning through it. How did you pull that all together? Vic Belonogoff: Eytan Elbaz is my cofounder and a really good friend. We came together in 2008, to focus on digital content.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Yet, based on my own years of experience “in the business”, mentoring many entrepreneurs, and following stalwarts like Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google, even these potentially controversial mindsets ring true to me: All risk isn’t risky. Save the celebration until you have cold cash in hand, or the funds are verified.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

Due to the combination of these factors, marketers began to more heavily fund digital platforms. All-in-all one study found that “1 in 5 people who receive an Internet coupon redeemed it;” so clearly digital couponing is more than just “another distribution channel,” as some analysts have previously stated.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The company recently raised a round of funding from Santa Barbara-based ScOps Venture Capital. In terms of where we offer to our customers, we have 250 different areas, from early childhood to studying for an MCAT or the bar. He founded Doubleclick, which he sold to Google, and he sold his last company to Amazon.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based MOVIECLIPS.COM (www.movieclips.com) announced the firm's Series A funding round, worth $3M, from Shasta Ventures, First Round Capital, and a number of Silicon Valley angels. Studies show, if you don't, people will turn to piracy. We represented Google in the acquisition of YouTube.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

Excite, MSN and eventually Google. If you’re negotiating with Samsung you can imagine they have Apple on their minds and if you’re negotiating with Twitter you can imagine they have eyes on Facebook, Google and even Snapchat. I have often asked for funding for this accelerated development.

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Xconomy

JUNE 10, 2016

Guardant is funding a series of trials around the country in people whose genetic or lifestyle profiles put them at high risk of five types of cancer. The results give the company confidence it can expand its tests to screen for early cancer in high-risk people who are otherwise healthy.

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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2017

He was just a friend from church, and we actually connected at church through bible study. You can google him, and you can see he's now CEO of Lucid Sight, another Southern California company, which is in VR and AR. It ended up being probably the most pivotal and influential experience of my life, living with Randy Saaf.

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